Description: This is an essential course for anyone wanting to understand the carbon markets and how to develop a carbon credit project. A key aim of the course is to simplify this highly complex area to facilitate good decision making by learners. This course will give clarity to those people who are unsure if they have a carbon project or simply want to better understand the process and costs to developing a carbon project. Key focus areas include the history of the carbon markets and their evolutions, current stability of the carbon markets and recent decisions, the evolution of carbon projects their mechanisms and methodologies, stages of a carbon project, costs, timelines, financing options and the local legislative landscape. We use a number of practical examples to ensure that learners leave this course with a good understanding of all the key elements of a carbon project.

Benefits of doing this course

Discover how the carbon markets were created, their drivers and how their future is being moulded through international negotiation; cap and trade discussions as well as carbon taxation legislation.

Gain an understanding around the carbon project development landscape and how it can benefit you and your company

Get visibility into timelines, costs and risks relating to developing a carbon project

Understand all of the elements of the carbon project development process

Learn about the types of carbon markets and carbon instrument and how carbon tax legislation will impact them

Learn tools to identify if a carbon project is viable

Learn about the types of carbon projects and registration bodies and what specific documentation is required by these bodies

Learn how carbon credits are created and traded

Understand the skills and resources required to make decisions about carbon projects